In 1967, an Australian man built a house from thousands of discarded glass bottles; nearly 60 years later, the unusual Lightning Ridge building survives as a mining museum and tourist attraction

• The Bottle House was built in 1967 and remains one of the distinctive landmarks in Lightning Ridge.
• Thousands of discarded glass bottles became the building material for an unusual house in the Australian outback in 1967.
• Nearly six decades later, the structure still stands in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, where it serves as a tourist attraction and a museum displaying opal-mining artefacts, vintage bottles and other historical objects.